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Dartry Mountains Area   N: Truskmore Subarea
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Gortnagarn Hill Leitrim County in Connacht Province, in no lists, Dark fine-grained cherty limestone Bedrock

Height: 445m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 16 Grid Reference: G78500 46200
Place visited by 26 members. Recently by: annem, Hyperstorm, eflanaga, Wilderness, millsd1, liz50, magnumpig, 40Shades, David-Guenot, PeakPaul, conormcbandon, jimbo87, garrettd, scubabenz, eamonoc
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Longitude: -8.331519, Latitude: 54.364012 , Easting: 178500, Northing: 346200 Prominence: 20m,  Isolation: 2.4km
ITM: 578454 846201,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Grtngr, 10 char: Gortnagarn
Bedrock type: Dark fine-grained cherty limestone, (Dartry Limestone Formation)

Previously Gortnagara in MV.   Gortnagarn is the 751st highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Gortnagarn  in area Dartry Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Eagle rock from Gortnagarn
 
Impressive Leitrim cliff scenery
by eamonoc  5 Oct 2014
Climbed on 12/9/2014. Following a hard but fabulous ascent of Keeloges Mt looked across Glenade valley towards Truskmore and Gortnagarn, and spied a path that worked its way above Glenade Lough and the precipitious slopes that give access to the plateau above Glenade to an area mentioned on OS sheet 16 as Largy. Parked car at G 8148 4639 starA room for one car parked carefully, crossed gate into rough field walked sth for about 100mts to grassy track leading uphill underneath impressive cliffs, path goes steeply uphill above a small forested area below to the left, carefully following this path it leads to the plateau at a junction of fences, headed to the right from here always handrailing the impressive void above Glenade on the right. was able to follow small sheep tracks along the very edge of the cliffs to point G7850 4651 starB Eagle rock in all its splendour is viewed to the west from here, summit of Gortnagarn is approx 500mts uphill to the left form here. A word of caution is advised the path from Glenade is narrow in places above the forest with very steep drops to the left as you ascend, in wet weather caution would be advised as this path is slippery in some areas, the sheep tracks that hug the cliffs above Glenade are very close to the edge of the cliffs with a couple of big gaping holes hidden among the heather hereabouts, with all caution taken the round trip is approx 10kms car to car, and the views over Glenade are very imppressive. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/622/comment/17693/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Gortnagarn  in area Dartry Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Gortnagara stone circle, Truskmore behind.
paddyhillsbagger on Gortnagarn, 2010
by paddyhillsbagger  18 Mar 2010
After Tievebaun I headed roughly SSE across desolate moorland for the even more desolate plain that is Gortnagara. Couldn't find anything to call the top so chose a peat hag. It's a long walk from Tievebaun and an even longer one back across the moorland to pick up Truskmore access road where we started the days walk. The most exciting thing about Gortnagara isn't it's "top" but the stone circle and other rock formations near the cliff edge at G779 468 starC and G783 467 starD which were the only relief to anotherwise arduous trek for a dull top. Purely for the list tickers! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/622/comment/4515/
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NeillHogg on Gortnagarn, 2007
by NeillHogg  22 Dec 2007
Was going to go up it at eagle rock but an albino on a quad told us there was no walking here and that there were consequences if we went up. This was a couple of years ago,things might have changed but I doubt it. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/622/comment/2927/
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